A bakery worker sparked online concerns about hygiene when he took tray-loads of Hong Kong’s iconic egg tart delicacy onto the city’s busy mass transit railway system. Photo: SCMP Composite.
Egg tart germ exposure: mass transit blunder puts spotlight on iconic Hong Kong dessert, revives mystery of its origins
- Blundering bakery chain staff member took tray-loads of sweet, eggy treat on busy mass transit rail system sparking online hygiene row
- Thousands of the popular, calorie-loaded tarts are sold in city daily, but no-one is quite sure where they came from
A bakery worker sparked online concerns about hygiene when he took tray-loads of Hong Kong’s iconic egg tart delicacy onto the city’s busy mass transit railway system. Photo: SCMP Composite.
